Issue 7 will be out in a couple of weeks. It is full of dark and troubling things.

Cover and all original art is as usual by David Gentry.

Stories:

The Reason For The Season by Bruce Holland RogersThe Hodag by Trent HergenraderBlood God Blood by Eric GregoryThe Talent Girl by Daniel KaysenPages From a Broken Book by Tony RichardsThe Deep Walker by Alison J. LittlewoodBait by David Sakmyster

Case Notes by Peter TennantMany book reviews including a special feature on Leisure Books, reviewing titles by Gary Braunbeck, Sarah Pinborough, Gord Rollo, Brian Keene, John Everson and Edward Lee, plus an interview with Leisure editor Don D'Auria; novels by Thomas Ligotti and Stephen Gregory from Virgin's new horror line; 'famous monsters' with books by Suzy McKee Charnas and Nicholas Pekearo; and a feature on the new novels by Tim Lebbon including an interview with the author.

Blood Spectrum by Tony LeeDVD reviews of many latest releases with chances for subscribers to win free copies of a lot of them. Who Saw Her Die?, Lost Boys 2: The Tribe, The Wizard of Gore, Shutter, B.T.K., Dante 01, Chemical Wedding, Day of the Dead, Dead Space: Downfall, Vexille, The Happening, Tin Man, The Flock, P2, The Vanguard, Outpost, Solstice, The Short Films of David Lynch, Eraserhead. Plus a round up of other DVDs received, including the Caligula Imperial Edition, Salò, The Dead Girl, Timber Falls, The Guard Post, Days of Darkness, Bone Dry, Reservoir Dogs Collector's Edition...

Can't wait. Particularly looking forward to Kaysen's, but anything 'dark and troubling' sounds good to me...

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benedictjjones [ Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:59 am ]

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looking forward to this as well. the last issue really blew me away so hopefully this will be more of the same!

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Ali_L [ Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:45 pm ]

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Very, very excited to be in Black Static.

And what a great cover....

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nicholas royle [ Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:23 pm ]

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forgotten man of horror

I read the item in White Noise on Comma Press's new anthology, The New Uncanny, to which I contribute a new story, 'The Dummy'. It seems that my name is neither a 'familiar name', nor 'one that we naturally associate with horror', as it wasn't mentioned at all.

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Andy [ Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:07 am ]

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Very sorry about that Nick but we got the info not from any of the contributors or from the publisher but from amazon, and your name wasn't mentioned there, nor does it show up on any other search. Last time I looked the book wasn't listed on the Comma Press website either. I can assure you that if we had known we would have mentioned you, and the item would've become even more newsworthy.

This might be a good time to remind Black Static readers to send us their news!

Incidentally, I'll be reading from my story in The New Uncanny at Lancaster Litfest on Halloween, in Lancaster, alongside Gerard Woodward and Matthew Holness.

Prior to that, tomorrow evening in fact, I'll be reading at the launch of the new Ambit, at Owl Bookshop, Kentish Town, north London, if any TTA Forum users are down that way and fancy a change from staring at the walls.

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Pete [ Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:00 am ]

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Matthew Holness isn't mentioned on Amazon either Nick, so you're not the only one overlooked

To reiterate/expand on what Andy said, folks please send me any news via whitenoise@ttapress.demon.co.uk It's not a guarantee you'll get a mention, as I have to make decisions about relevance and Andy has to make decisions about space, but at least you're in with a shot.

Jo: not at all. I just dodn't want to be a dick myself by recommending something to you that I might already have recommended to you. Alison Jeapes was an MA student of mine from W/ton. Trevor Hoyle's brilliant novel, Blind Needle (John Calder), is set in Workington, though he calls it Brickton. It's a thriller with an experiemental element. One of my favourite novels. If you can get hold of a copy, you might like it.